Data Analyst

Contract length: 1 year or continuous
Hours: Full-time
Location: Home-based

Travel: None anticipated

Reporting to: Global Product Manager

Salary range: 3,200-3,800 USD/month

Deadline for applications: March 31, 2022

CLEAR Global is an equal-opportunity employer, committed to having a diverse team where individuals of all backgrounds collaborate and learn from one another. We believe we can be most effective with diverse experience and expertise in our team. We recruit on merit, actively seek diverse applicant pools and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, marital or parental status, or sexual orientation, and welcome all types of diversity.

We offer in addition to salary:

• an innovative work environment with a diverse and passionate team,
• 20 days of annual leave and 10 days of floating holidays,
• the flexibility of home-based/remote work,
• accommodation and per diems when on deployment.

The role

The Data Analyst should be enthusiastic about the importance of increasing access to knowledge through improved language data. The right candidate is an energetic team player and leader who agrees with Clear Global’s basic beliefs and values and who can work virtually with team members based throughout the world.

Responsibilities

• Inform and implement Data visualization strategy
• Coordinate Clear Global’s approach to data analysis and data-driven decision making in program tech.
• Identify and evaluate data visualization platforms that could be used across various platforms like our AI chatbots.
• Input into the decision making process that determines the technology approach that would work best for each program.
• Work with the Product Team to ensure that the data visualization provides an accurate representation of usage of the product and provides critical insights into how its being used.
• Use data and data visualization to advocate for language to be considered in our programs.
• Work across teams to understand data processing and visualization needs in creating and evaluating language technology datasets and tools to serve the needs of Clear Global’s tech platforms.
• Work with Clear Global’s NLP teams on analysis of multilingual content gathered by partner organizations.
• Contribute to a positive, innovative and supportive work environment where Clear Global’s values are understood and upheld

Please note that these roles and responsibilities are approximate and may change over time.

Qualifications

The Data Analyst should be an innovative self-starter with a strong sense of initiative, an understanding of the humanitarian sector with a strong background in data science, statistics or a related field and enthusiastic about the importance of increasing access to knowledge through language. The right candidate is an energetic team player and leader who agrees with Clear Global’s basic beliefs and values and who can work virtually with team members based throughout the world.

Requirements

Required skills and experience

• Degree in data science, statistics, or related field
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Strong skills in Python and/or R
• Experience consolidating data from multiple sources (ETL for example)
• Strong skills running SQL or other data query languages to process relational data.
• Advanced skills with Google Sheets, including data imports and vlookups.
• Experience with Google APIs
• Data visualization experience, including experience with platforms such as Microsoft PowerBI, Tableau, or open source integrations.
• Experience working with demographic and geospatial data.
• Communication skills, particularly the ability to communicate complex concepts to a non-specialist audience
• Experience in designing data visualization and data management systems to inform decision-making

Preferred skills and experience

• Working competency in other languages
• Experience with GIS and web mapping, such as through Carto, MapBox, QGIS, and/or ArcGIS Online.
• Graphic design skills in data visualization.
• Experience working with interactive data visualization software and libraries such as Datawrapper, Flourish, Plotly and D3.
• Experience working with big data and/or web crawling of multilingual content.
• Experience working with machine learning training data, especially language data.
• Humanitarian or international development experience

About CLEAR Global

CLEAR Global exists to help people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. We believe that everyone has the right to give and receive information in a language and format they understand. We work with nonprofit partners and a global community of language professionals to build local language translation capacity, and raise awareness of language barriers. Our network of over 80,000 community members translate millions of words of life-saving and life-changing information a year.

Core values

CLEAR Global employees and volunteers are people who believe passionately about the value of this work and take personal responsibility for achieving the mission. CLEAR Global’s mission and organizational spirit embody the core values established in its strategic framework:

• Excellence: As the leading voice for communicating humanitarian information in the right language, CLEAR Global is a leader in the translation industry and in the non-profit sector.
• Integrity: CLEAR Global believes that every person, whether it’s the people who we serve, our volunteers or our staff, has value, deserves respect and has inherent dignity.
• Empowerment: CLEAR Global believes in using language to empower people around the world to control their own development and destiny.
• Innovation: CLEAR Global recognizes and celebrates the power of innovation to address humanitarian and crisis issues around the world.
• Sustainability: CLEAR Global recognizes that meeting our mission necessitates establishment and maintenance of a solid financial and organizational infrastructure.
• Tolerance: Our staff and volunteers are highly knowledgeable and skilled; value each other, our partner and our recipients; create a supportive work environment; and, conduct themselves professionally at all times.

CLEAR Global may re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer an appointment with a modified job description or for a different duration at its discretion.